Smoothing Sign In and Sign Up

Team blog: Developers

My first patch for Lib.Reviews went live earlier this month! A small ease of use feature for users. When you follow a link to a lib.reviews page and click sign in or register from that page, you will now be redirected to the page you came from. This feature will be very nice to have as lib.reviews grows and users become more likely to enter the site from arbitrary links.

The second feature went online last week. This patch ia a hidden ease of use feature for non-english users. Users can post links with a signupLanguage query to advertise registration for lib.reviews in any supported language. Say all your friends speak esperanto, you would send them lib.reviews/register?signupLanguage=eo so the website will show up in esperanto without having to search for the language drop down. This should help new users feel welcome right away.